Re: [Cooker] 9.2 funny bootplash problem

2003-11-09 Thread John Keller
Andrey Borzenkov wrote: When I boot with vanilla 9.2 kernel and otherwise vanilla 9.2 I get strange effect. Using ASUS V7100 (GF2MX) on ASUS CUSL2 (i815) motherboard. Boot is completed, I get login prompt - but large 9.2 remains in lower right corner. If I do 'echo 0 /proc/splash' - it mostly

Re: [Cooker] TWiki Style

2003-10-23 Thread John Keller
Buchan Milne wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: I spent a lot of time tonight applying the style that Buchan created on the main page to the rest of the pages in the Cooker Twiki. Hopefully this gives the whole site a more polished, professional feel. In addition, I set up the Web template so

Re: [Cooker] Bugzilla update

2003-10-23 Thread John Keller
Warly wrote: Lea Gris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe if mod_gzip was onabled on qa.mandrakesoft.com this would make page loading much faster and less bandwidth hungry. mod_gzip is not yet ported to apache2 Besides, it's more the query time (on the server side) and the rendering time

[Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] ion-20030814-1mdk

2003-10-21 Thread John Keller
Han Boetes wrote: URL : http://www.students.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion Summary : Tiling window manager with keyboard-oriented interface. This wm was added a looong time ago (23 Aug was the last update), but it piqued my interest. The site doesn't seem to be accessible from the url above.

[Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] ion-20030814-2mdk

2003-10-21 Thread John Keller
Han Boetes wrote: - Fixed url. Wow, that was fast (and for a nitpicky li'l thing, too). :) - John

Re: [Cooker] [Mandrake 10] : Updating the default icon artwork

2003-10-17 Thread John Keller
Buchan Milne wrote: Austin Acton wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 06:59, Buchan Milne wrote: I prefer KDE icons to GNOME icons personally. The new SVG based icons look amazing on GNOME2. But all the good themes were ripped from KDE ;-). Maybe there, but that's where the action is taking

Re: [Cooker] glibc-2.3.2-16mdk with IDN (international domain name) support

2003-10-17 Thread John Keller
Oden Eriksson wrote: I have finally got this working. I would appreciate it a great deal if someone could tell me if I'm doing this in vain, as I haven't gotten a single reply as of yet. Do MandrakeSoft have any interested in IDN? I think this would be a killer for Mandrake 10. I would agree,

Re: [Cooker] Fine ! another good job is done

2003-10-17 Thread John Keller
Linux from Marseille wrote: For adsl with free.fr (french provider) I installed the eagle driver and follow the information of http://eagle-usb.fr.st it work fine Ah, then I take it that you're using it via USB? I don't have the Sagem modem, but the FreeBox (Paris-only, I think?) has both

Re: [Cooker] IDN (3)

2003-10-17 Thread John Keller
Oden Eriksson wrote: There could be patents regarding this... http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/ebusiness/story/0,10801,59043,00.html http://www.i-d-n.net/#patents The dateline in the first article is 28 March 2001, and the article mentions that the IETF would start over from

Re: [Cooker] argh, i can't edit wiki

2003-10-06 Thread John Keller
Thomas Backlund wrote: jokerman64 kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Sunnuntai 05 Lokakuu 2003 02:37): On Saturday 04 October 2003 01:37 pm, Thomas Backlund wrote: From: John Keller [EMAIL PROTECTED] jokerman64 wrote: what do i do? You need to e-mail Warly to get Wiki

Re: [Cooker] argh, i can't edit wiki

2003-10-04 Thread John Keller
jokerman64 wrote: what do i do? You need to e-mail Warly to get Wiki access. - John

Re: [Cooker] Post 9.2 urpmi security suggestion/question

2003-09-26 Thread John Keller
Duncan wrote: With that in mind, I've become increasingly uncomfortable running urpmi, downloads and all, from root. I don't surf the web as root, and for good reason, I expect most will agree. I understand the need for root for the installation steps, but why must the files be downloaded as

Re: [Cooker] [9.3/10.0 THOUGHTS] Drakconnect and networkconfiguration

2003-09-21 Thread John Keller
FACORAT Fabrice wrote: How can I edit the page ? ... when asking for username/password, I try the one I use for bugzilla, but no way ... I wrote to Warly, and asked him if he could enable access. I was in within a day or so... - John

Re: [Cooker] [9.3/10.0 THOUGHTS] Drakconnect and network configuration

2003-09-19 Thread John Keller
Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Donnerstag, 18. September 2003 18:51 schrieb Thierry Vignaud: John Keller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/DrakConnectWishlist wouldn't this be better merged into http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main

Re: [Cooker] Re: Draksync question / mirror for members

2003-09-18 Thread John Keller
David Walser wrote: Buchan Milne wrote: Vincent Meyer, MD wrote: Also, the server's built, the line is in, and would be nice to get this server up and available for use of fellow cookers here in North America. If a graphic tool like Draksync won't do it, does anyone have a

Re: [Cooker] Re: Re: Draksync question / mirror for members

2003-09-18 Thread John Keller
David Walser wrote: John Keller wrote: I'm afraid I don't know anything about this utility, or even if it's mentioned in the right spot on the page. If you or anyone else would like to add anything particular about it (instructions, whatever), just let me know. What did it used to say

Re: [Cooker] [9.3/10.0 THOUGHTS] Drakconnect and network configuration

2003-09-18 Thread John Keller
Michael Scherer wrote: On Tuesday 16 September 2003 16:29, Simon Oosthoek wrote: Wow! That's a very detailed description and it looks like it would improve network configuration (at least for experts) by unmeasurable amounts! It would be much better on the wiki. Because, keeping track

[Cooker] DrakX resolution test (was: Two glitches from RC1 installation)

2003-09-17 Thread John Keller
[ I should've sent this in a new thread so that it didn't disappear in the flow; apologies for the double-post ] Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So... if it isn't already planned, can we have some test image? Even if it consist only of some

Re: [Cooker] ANN: Mandrake GDM themes based on bootsplashes

2003-09-16 Thread John Keller
Diego Iastrubni wrote: cool! may you add themes with user lists as well? I would like to see that Yeah, that's exactly something I wanted to try out as well (I love new toys like that). It's a little different, so I don't know when but I hope very soon! - John

Re: [Cooker] ANN: Mandrake GDM themes based on bootsplashes

2003-09-16 Thread John Keller
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Guillaume Bedot wrote: well, good work ! off centered version and tweaked star look better to me. it would be perfect with a user list version:) Guillaume B. I also like the off-center version and the tweaked star. Thanks, guys. I was crossing my

Re: [Cooker] Two glitches from RC1 installation

2003-09-16 Thread John Keller
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So... if it isn't already planned, can we have some test image? Even if it consist only of some simple lines and colors, so that one can judge whether the whole screen is shown and has correct properties?

Re: [Cooker] ANN: Mandrake GDM themes based on bootsplashes

2003-09-16 Thread John Keller
Buchan Milne wrote: But Lenny can still put packages into the contrib fork - shout if you need more help spamming ;-). Oh, well. I guess there's no rush in that case. I've been trying to wrangle an image up for the second design by Brant, anyway. Well, I think it's still worthwhile doing

[Cooker] ANN: Mandrake GDM themes based on bootsplashes

2003-09-15 Thread John Keller
Thanks to Olivier Blin, there's a package in contrib with alternate graphic bootsplashes. And thanks to Tim Butler and Brant Fitzsimmons, some of these themes are custom-designed for Mandrake. I've whipped up a couple of GDM login themes based on these two guys' work. Only two of the three

Re: [Cooker] ANN: Mandrake GDM themes based on bootsplashes

2003-09-15 Thread John Keller
Olivier Blin wrote: This is a request for people to download the gdm themes and give them a look-see. You can find them at: http://john.keller.free.fr/ Nice :) Thanks. I had good material to start with. Each theme has two variations. I originally made an off-centered layout for

Re: [Cooker] ANN: Mandrake GDM themes based on bootsplashes

2003-09-15 Thread John Keller
Olivier Blin wrote: Thank you! I'd like to try and get it in before the contrib is forked for 9.2 stable. On the other hand, only two of the designs currently up (1 variation of each design) will need to go in. I'm afraid contrib is already forked :-/ Grrr. :p Lenny hadn't said that in

Re: [Cooker] Epiphany is now the default GNOME web browser

2003-09-13 Thread John Keller
Steve Fox wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 02:39, John Keller wrote: Epiphany was chosen sometime before 2 July: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-July/msg00016.html Epiphany might be gnome default in Mdk 10, but not before: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id

Re: [Cooker] gnome2.4

2003-09-12 Thread John Keller
Austin wrote: I just wanted to say thanks to Fred C. for getting Gnome 2.4.0 into Mandrake 9.2. It works, it's beautiful, it's reliable, and it's functional. And thanks to Warly for breaking policy to get it in! aolme too!/aol I know there are so many cool aspects to 9.2, but for me this is

Re: [Cooker] Epiphany is now the default GNOME web browser

2003-09-09 Thread John Keller
Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 21:01, Steve Fox wrote: Something in the last few days convinced GNOME that Epiphany is the default web browser. I think Frederic was planning to change that before release, so I thought I'd mention it. I had Galeon specified in the Preferred

Re: [Cooker] SB Live! 5.1 PCI not working

2003-09-08 Thread John Keller
Thierry Vignaud wrote: Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I had my SB Live! 5.1 SoundBlaster PCI card working under MDK 9.2 Beta 2, but cannot seem to get it working under RC1. I changed the driver from Audigy to emu10k1 and make sure that neither aumix or kmix were muted. Any

Re: [Cooker] 9.2 rc2 and bittorrent

2003-09-08 Thread John Keller
Warly wrote: In order to have a more solid base, would some of you with good bandwith could get the ISO in advance and let their client up do have everything spreading faster ? We have 80 Kbps upstream ADSL, based in Paris. I don't know if that qualifies as good bandwidth, but I'd be happy to

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] dirmngr-0.4.4-5mdk

2003-09-08 Thread John Keller
Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 23:02, Thierry Vignaud wrote: Name: dirmngr Relocations: (not relocateable) Summary : Temporary project to work on GnuPG extensions Description : NewPG is a temporary project to work on GnuPG extensions. It

Re: [Cooker] VC background

2003-09-06 Thread John Keller
Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 03:18, Austin wrote: I just noticed the backgrounds on the virtual console. While it is the same image (from the same file, I assume), it looks great in gnome (console 7), but TERRIBLE on VC 1. So bad, it's hard to read the text. This

Re: [Cooker] rc1 install test

2003-09-06 Thread John Keller
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: I'm not sure Pixel will want to spend the necessary time to make this real. Changing steps in the installer has always been buggy. It's complicated and not really designed for it. Removing it completely allowed us to do things like deleting image files for language

Re: [Cooker] rc1 install test

2003-09-06 Thread John Keller
Buchan Milne wrote: On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Adam Williamson wrote: Erm...is 1024x768 actually your laptop's native resolution? Reason I ask is I see no problem at all with the 1024x768 images on my CRT. Unless you mean the white lines which become more prominent in a spherical pattern in the

Re: [Cooker] missing package in kdenetwork

2003-09-06 Thread John Keller
Olivier Blin wrote: Buchan Milne wrote: You mean like this one? http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RpmHowTo#Menu_system Exactly like this one ... Still, it *was* buried too deeply. Plus, I missed its connection with RpmHowTo when doing my orphaned pages cleanup (it was very

Re: [Cooker] Two glitches from RC1 installation

2003-09-06 Thread John Keller
Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: Hi! Howdy! Yesterday moderated a test install of RC1 on a friend's computer (he is a Windows advanced, but a Linux novice) to verify whether some problems he had with 9.1 still exist (they never occured on my computer). An execllent and time-proven testing method.

Re: [Cooker] Two glitches from RC1 installation

2003-09-06 Thread John Keller
Buchan Milne wrote: John, the more time you spend on the wiki, the more time I can spend confirming bugs like this ;-). It's a deal! :) BTW, anyone know where to find the current test image, and any suggestions for one (max size, test patterns)? Not sure where, but I can imagine these

Re: [Cooker] 9 bugs not reported for mdk 9.2rc1

2003-09-05 Thread John Keller
Buchan Milne wrote: On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: You left: #manfid 0x, 0x1090 with the hash, I think it's not meant? Needs to be documented properly, left as a reminder ;-) (I assume for some cards, if manfid doesn't exist in config, then it's ok, while

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kernel-2.4.22.5mdk-1-1mdk

2003-09-05 Thread John Keller
Buchan Milne wrote: Juan Quintela wrote: - make xconfig works again (lufs is fixed). - fix another mising linux/init.h for firmware_class (gb). - reenable i686-up-4GB and p3-smp-64GB, modversions should work now. - mydsdt removed (now it is included in the initrd). Juan, are we going to

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kernel-2.4.22.5mdk-1-1mdk

2003-09-05 Thread John Keller
[ I need to make a habit of using reply-to-all; sorry for the double-post ] Buchan Milne wrote: Juan Quintela wrote: - make xconfig works again (lufs is fixed). - fix another mising linux/init.h for firmware_class (gb). - reenable i686-up-4GB and p3-smp-64GB, modversions should work now.

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] mandrake_theme-0.0.5-1mdk

2003-09-05 Thread John Keller
Buchan Milne wrote: On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Steffen Barszus wrote: Wouldn't it be nice to have a kde(gnome?)-splash screen in that theme as well ? Yes. And gdm themes (present in mandrake_theme, but not others). Maybe Olivier Blin has had time to look at this

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] mandrake_theme-0.0.5-1mdk

2003-09-05 Thread John Keller
Buchan Milne wrote: Mandrakesoft (icons) and (Brant Fitzsimmons|Timothy Butler) (original background artwork) ? Good idea. I'll change the .desktop files before things make it to the list. If no contributors give better copyright statements -tough ;-). :D Happy to defer to da boyz/Mdk

Re: [Cooker] What is the difference between kernels?

2003-09-05 Thread John Keller
Jure Repinc wrote: There are a lot of kernels available to install. I have 11 uf I do urpmi kernel: 1- kernel-2.4.22.5mdk-1-1mdk.i586 2- kernel-enterprise-2.4.22.5mdk-1-1mdk.i586 3- kernel-i686-up-4GB-2.4.22.5mdk-1-1mdk.i586 4- kernel-p3-smp-64GB-2.4.22.5mdk-1-1mdk.i586 5-

Re: [Cooker] What is the difference between kernels?

2003-09-05 Thread John Keller
Jure Repinc wrote: There are a lot of kernels available to install. I have 11 uf I do urpmi kernel: [snip] I wonder what are the differences between these kernels? Maybe somone could add some HowTo to Mandrake Wiki about this. Okay, it's up and ready for proofreading (and for being torn

Re: [Cooker] rc1 install test

2003-09-05 Thread John Keller
Austin wrote: 3. The fonts in all the GTK2 stuff look terrible. Very choppy on my 1024x768 LCD, which is a very common thing on laptops. The 'real' text mode fonts look fine though. Did you run the vgahi install? I did, and the graphical install looked good on my 1024x768 (native) LCD. -

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] mandrake_theme-0.0.5-1mdk

2003-09-05 Thread John Keller
Thierry Vignaud wrote: John Keller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Happy to defer to da boyz/Mdk (Hélène?) if they prefer something different. how to say it ? mmhh, helen really is not a boy you see :-) Oh, I know. That's why the /. As in, 'da boyz' (or) Mandrake (e.g. Hélène). Ch'uis pas

Re: [Cooker] rc1 install test

2003-09-05 Thread John Keller
Thierry Vignaud wrote: Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just installed rc1 on my laptop (finally, been VERY busy lately). A few notes: 1. There are still not many 'BACK' button in drakx. This is very frustrating for a user when he screws up. postponed to mdk10 This is now

[Cooker] Xircom's PCMCIA Ethernet adaptor

2003-09-04 Thread John Keller
The is a call for votes on a Bugzilla bug that I opened a long time ago -- on 28 February. I have two laptops, each with Xircom Ethernet adaptors. Since the 9.1 (yes, nine-point-one) beta cycle, DrakConnect has been totally unable to work with this card. However, things worked just fine in 9.0.

Re: [Cooker] urpmi --auto-select asks too many questions

2003-09-04 Thread John Keller
François Pons wrote: Liam Quin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like it to prompt yes/always/No/reject all I can't do that for 9.2, but I can make yes act as always and no act as reject all. It could be fixed more cleanly after 9.2 Call me overcautious, but I'd prefer not to have that

Re: [Cooker] Re: My PCMCIA NIC didn't work in b2, can it be fixed ..

2003-09-04 Thread John Keller
Buchan Milne wrote: gc: another one for you: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/attachment.cgi?id=743action=view Oops. I forgot to e-mail it to gc after putting it in Bugzilla. Thanks, Buchan. - John

Re: [Cooker] Epiphany as the top choice for webclient-gnome?

2003-09-04 Thread John Keller
Frederic Crozat wrote: On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 21:57:10 +0800, Abel Cheung wrote: How about bumping up the priority of epiphany as the best choice for webclient-gnome, since epiphany is now considered Gnome's choice for web browser? Please, read previous bug report about that.. I don't

Re: [Cooker] 9 bugs not reported for mdk 9.2rc1

2003-09-04 Thread John Keller
Buchan Milne wrote: I added a new page for it: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/AddHardwareHowTo D'oh! I just finished a page at http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/HardwareHowTo I formatted it, cleaned it up, and added a bit of extra explanation at key points.

Re: [Cooker] 9 bugs not reported for mdk 9.2rc1

2003-09-04 Thread John Keller
[oops, I didn't include Camille or Till before] Buchan Milne wrote: I added a new page for it: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/AddHardwareHowTo D'oh! I just finished a page at http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/HardwareHowTo I formatted it, cleaned it up, and

Re: [Cooker] Cooker and the 9.2 release

2003-09-03 Thread John Keller
Robert Pollak wrote: Has ML9.2 development already branched from Cooker, or is Cooker going to stabilize now until it is tagged 9.2? IOW: When I use Cooker to verify fixes of 9.2rc1 errors, will they be fixed in the final 9.2, too? Yes, that's correct. Cooker is always in flux but at

Re: [Cooker] [OT] Cooker and the 9.2 release

2003-09-03 Thread John Keller
Robert Pollak wrote: John Keller wrote: Cooker is always in flux but at certain moments, snapshots are made. Does this mean there will be no further stabilizing branch after 9.2, to eventually get a 9.2.1? 9.2 *is* the stabilizing release. It's intended to be the stable sucessor to 9.1

Re: [Cooker] [OT] Cooker and the 9.2 release

2003-09-03 Thread John Keller
John Allen wrote: On Wednesday 03 September 2003 10:17, Radek Vybiral wrote: On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Robert Pollak wrote: John Keller wrote: Cooker is always in flux but at certain moments, snapshots are made. Does this mean there will be no further stabilizing branch after 9.2

[Cooker] copyright question

2003-09-02 Thread John Keller
Hi, all. I'm getting together some GDM themes based on Brant Fitzsimmons' and Timothy Butler's bootsplashes. In the GDM theme selector, it shows some meta information for each theme including copyright. All the other GDM themes in cooker and contrib have copyrights of the different organizations

[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] bluefish-0.11-2mdk

2003-09-02 Thread John Keller
Nicolas Planel wrote: - new icons from John Keller [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;) It's great to see that, but I can't really take credit. I just stumbled across a nicer icon in the source, and Per Øyvind resized it to the needed sizes. I only acted as a catalyst... But thanks for the credit, Nicolas

Re: [Cooker] gdm

2003-09-01 Thread John Keller
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: John Keller wrote: Photoshop format is just fine. I have FireWorks MX on my XP machine, which should be able to handle all but the more esoteric things. Filters may be a problem, so I'll let you know if so (I'll compare to what you've posted to make sure I'm seeing

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for improved user experience

2003-09-01 Thread John Keller
Vincent Danen wrote: On Sun Aug 31, 2003 at 08:02:18PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: I finally got to using it with superkaramba: http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/screenshots/superkaramba-mandrakesecure-rdf.png Just need to work on the graphics a bit, either use a light background,

Re: [Cooker] urpmi problem

2003-09-01 Thread John Keller
Bellegarde Cedric wrote: When i run an urpmi --auto-select, urpmi don't tell me anyting if there is noting to upgrade. [EMAIL PROTECTED] gnumdk]# urpmi --auto-select [EMAIL PROTECTED] gnumdk]# You need to run urpmi.update -a first. However, it may have simply been that updates were simply

[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] gnome2-2.4.0-1mdk

2003-09-01 Thread John Keller
Frederic Crozat wrote: - Release 2.4.0 I was really happy, then I realized: I thought it was still at beta 2, or at most just entered RC? Also, the URL should probably be updated to http://www.gnome.org/start/2.4/ (not yet operational) for the RPMs that use the start address. - John, crossing

Re: [Cooker] urpmi problem

2003-09-01 Thread John Keller
Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 10:54, John Keller wrote: Bellegarde Cedric wrote: When i run an urpmi --auto-select, urpmi don't tell me anyting if there is noting to upgrade. [EMAIL PROTECTED] gnumdk]# urpmi --auto-select [EMAIL PROTECTED] gnumdk]# You need

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] gnome2-2.4.0-1mdk

2003-09-01 Thread John Keller
Frederic Crozat wrote: RC is for very soon.. I simply don't want to forget this virtual package before Mdk 9.2 final :) Ah, ha! Well, I can wait another week or so... :) Also, the URL should probably be updated to http://www.gnome.org/start/2.4/ (not yet operational) for the RPMs that use

Re: [Cooker] Lisa is going crazy and other tidbits on RC1

2003-08-31 Thread John Keller
Buchan Milne wrote: On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Mircea Ciocan wrote: 1) I was greedy and put on local net 10.0.0.0/8, so from time to time the network stopped responding with Not enough buffer space when I tryed to ping somethin, first I belived is from Intel EEpro100 driver but then in log

Re: [Cooker] resend: no silent bootsplash

2003-08-30 Thread John Keller
Buchan Milne wrote: For Mandrake theme, set splash=silent in your append line for your default boot image, or pass splash=silent from the bootloader prompt. Yup, I double-checked before typing this (though that doesn't rule out the possibility that I'm simply thick). I thought it curious that

Re: [Cooker] resend: no silent bootsplash

2003-08-30 Thread John Keller
Adam Williamson wrote: Probably obvious, but have you actually done anything to regenerate your initrd since setting up for a silent bootsplash? If the image isn't actually in the initrd you're never gonna see it... Yup. Thanks for checking, since there's sometimes the obvious thing that is

Re: [Cooker] resend: no silent bootsplash

2003-08-30 Thread John Keller
Olivier Blin wrote: Works for me in both. But the Linux theme looks like the 9.1 theme, I was expecting a penguin. oups, fixing ... dunno what happened :/ Hi, Oliver. Would you be willing to consider changing one other thing as well? In all of the new themes, the verbose bootsplash is

[Cooker] Re: [delete] cooker main changes

2003-08-30 Thread John Keller
[ Oops -- I meant for this to go to the list ] John Keller wrote: gc wrote: orphan from source these packages has been removed from cooker main: - freeciv-1.14.0-5mdk.alpha.rpm (alpha) - freeciv-1.14.0-8mdk.src.rpm (alpha) - freeciv-1.14.0-7mdk.i586.rpm (i586) - freeciv-client

Re: [Cooker] urpmi keep ignoring some sources - right after adding them

2003-08-30 Thread John Keller
Kim Schulz wrote: hi Hi. I have a problem with the latest couple of version(packages) of urpmi. Whenever I add a new source (main and contrib) via urpmi.setup, then it works for one done download (or actually until I do urpmi.update -a the next time). After that it sets ignore on some of

Re: [Cooker] rc1 the last rc before final ?

2003-08-29 Thread John Keller
w9ya wrote: No comments on wikis. Or maybe better put; I had better not waste everyones time on my impressions of wikis. In any event; I think the timetable *needs* to reiterated on the mailing list as milestones approach as stuff on a wiki is easily missed. I think that the Wiki serves an

Re: [Cooker] rc1 the last rc before final ?

2003-08-29 Thread John Keller
Copy of the reply I got from Bob, since it didn't go to the list: On Friday 29 August 2003 08:45 am, John Keller wrote: w9ya wrote: No comments on wikis. Or maybe better put; I had better not waste everyones time on my impressions of wikis. In any event; I think the timetable *needs

[Cooker] test, please ignore

2003-08-29 Thread John Keller
move along, nothing to see here...

[Cooker] resend: no silent bootsplash

2003-08-29 Thread John Keller
[mail isn't getting through to the list, yet again...] I think I saw someone else mention this a while back, but I thought I'd try and stir things up again. I've never been able to get the silent version of the bootsplashes. This has been the case ever since the first trials with the new

Re: [Cooker] resend: no silent bootsplash

2003-08-29 Thread John Keller
This is not a consequence of any of the mentioned pkgs nor is it a cooker issue. If you do not want verbose output add 'quiet' to your lilo append Thanks, but I think you misunderstood me. If you take a look at the selections of screens (for example, at

Re: [Cooker] resend: no silent bootsplash

2003-08-29 Thread John Keller
Steffen Barszus wrote: For me the silent mode only showed up, once i had installed bootsplash-thmes from contrib and changed the theme. After that it worked. And it looked awesome :D Yeah, I had cycled through almost all of the contrib themes before my first mailing. No luck. I'm jealous, but

[Cooker] test, please ignore

2003-08-29 Thread John Keller
dammit, this is getting annoying...

Re: [Cooker] gdm

2003-08-28 Thread John Keller
John Keller wrote: Buchan Milne wrote: John Keller seems to know a bit about GDM themes, John, care to sort out the stuff for a GDM theme, and someone can wrap it up in a package? Sure, I could try that. About time I put my money where my mouth is around here! snip Feel free to send

[Cooker] Wiki changes (or, What I did instead of sleeping)

2003-08-28 Thread John Keller
Too much iced tea, hooked on phoni^H^H^H^H^H Wiki. I've taken a sort of inventory of pages on Wiki, with an eye particularly towards rounding up orphan topics. I've moved topics that were directly under Main (but had no links to them) in such a way as to try and create bundles of certain themes.

Re: [Cooker] gdm

2003-08-28 Thread John Keller
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: John Keller wrote: D'oh! I hadn't realized that Tim had made available some Gimp files with layers. Brant, let me know if you have something similar. In the meantime, I'll chug along with some of Tim's stuff... I did mine in Photoshop. What needs to be done

Re: [Cooker] bad md5sums on RC1?

2003-08-28 Thread John Keller
Braddock, Joseph wrote: I have downloaded the ISO images twice from two different mirrors and each time, running md5sum -c 9.2rc1.md5sums.asc fails on all three ISOs. Before burning these, are the ISOs bad are is the 9.2rc1.md5sums.asc bad? I got my md5 file via BitTorrent, and the first iso

Re: [Cooker] Re: gdm

2003-08-27 Thread John Keller
requires (gdm/karamba etc). snip John Keller seems to know a bit about GDM themes, John, care to sort out the stuff for a GDM theme, and someone can wrap it up in a package? Sure, I could try that. About time I put my money where my mouth is around here! A GDM theme includes: - a background

Re: [Cooker] OT: audio promotion

2003-08-27 Thread John Keller
Austin wrote: This should be good publicity for Mandrake as an audio distribution... Some weird site called bbspot.com featured my mandrake audio workstation howto, and now I'm getting over 1000 hits per day to it. Compare to maybe 50 at most before. Incentive to get alsa working for 9.2?

Re: [Cooker] Cooker is in frozen state.

2003-08-27 Thread John Keller
Warly wrote: New versions will only be allowed for important bug fixing. This may be a good time to update the release status page in Wiki: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/Mandrake92 I've taken a first step and removed the old kernel in B1 info, as well as some tidying up the

Re: [Cooker] Cooker is in frozen state.

2003-08-27 Thread John Keller
John Keller wrote: Also, maybe the Bittorrent notice on the front page should be larger.integrated with the status page (not exclusively, but in addition to the front page). I didn't do it because the current BT files don't download for me. With Warly's official announcement of the BitTorrent

Re: [Cooker] Kernel 2.4.22.1mdk fails to install

2003-08-27 Thread John Keller
Buchan Milne wrote: Serge Pluess wrote: Hi when installing the kernel-2.4.22.1mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm both with urpmi or rpm -ivh I get the following error message : ln: invalid option -- o Try `ln --help' for more information rpm -q bootloader-utils ? Glad to see I'm not the only

[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] pango-1.2.4-1mdk

2003-08-27 Thread John Keller
-1mdk wrote: -=-=-=- Name: pangoRelocations: (not relocateable) Version : 1.2.4 Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 1mdk Build Date: Wed Aug 27 11:33:39 2003 Install Date: (not installed)

[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] gdm-2.4.2.101-1mdk

2003-08-25 Thread John Keller
Frederic Crozat wrote: - Release 2.4.2.101 - Regenerate patch0 - Remove source1, no longer needed Fred, have you seen this yet? http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4700 It's an updated version of the Mandrake mdk.xml that uses the new variables (so that the user can customize the

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] gdm-2.4.2.101-1mdk

2003-08-25 Thread John Keller
Frederic Crozat wrote: On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 14:18:38 +0200, John Keller wrote: Fred, have you seen this yet? Yes, I've seen it.. But I also need to merge other stuff in Mdk gdm theme and I planned to do everything at the same time (probably this week, once I nailed the 100 Oops; sorry

Re: [Cooker] OT: Have you come across free beer? [was somethingelse..]

2003-08-21 Thread John Keller
Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 23:38, Leif Sawyer wrote: Austin responded to: Adam Williamson whom On 08/20/03 15:46:23, wrote: Besides, have any of you ever met anyone at *all* who's come across free beer? :D Exactly what I was just about to say. Where the hell

Re: [Cooker] QT massive improvement

2003-08-21 Thread John Keller
Duncan wrote: I wondered as well.. until I thought about it.. KDE calls its own widgets, knows about them and uses them as necessary. Qt, OTOH, didn't know about or use them. Adding KDE widget support allows Qt-only (thus, not KDE specific) apps to ALSO use the KDE widgets. It doesn't

Re: [Cooker] QT massive improvement

2003-08-21 Thread John Keller
Thierry Vignaud wrote: if something uses widgets from libXYZ and one update libXYZ to use smarter widgets the the same API ABI, there's no reasong for anything to break. dependancies prevent you to explicetely break your system, so not having or using kde desktop should not result in any

Re: [Cooker] QT massive improvement

2003-08-21 Thread John Keller
Thierry Vignaud wrote: advertisement well, you can always switch to emacs with gnus under zindoz, which enable you to: - correctly quote messages you answer to - fix quote with one regexp on one region and one m-q if needed /ad Well, I'm a vi person under *nix... :-) But I seriously will

Re: [Cooker] unscribe

2003-08-21 Thread John Keller
richard wrote: there is way too much email for my isp to handle please stop! How to do it: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerfaq.php3 - John

[Cooker] Nautilus text previews in icons

2003-08-20 Thread John Keller
Something from the back of my mind... I never seem to be able to get text previews in my icons in Nautilus (local files or remote mounts), not even when I set preferences to show them Always. Sometimes, I wonder if it isn't because Nautilus thinks my machine is too slow (PII/400). But then again,

Re: [Cooker] Kroupware .

2003-08-20 Thread John Keller
Bernard Varaine wrote: cooker updated since a logn time. there is a lot of conflict between th eKroupware part and kde-network it seems Ah, oops. My apologies; your situation had sounded to me like someone who only wanted one package. Good luck... - John

Re: [Cooker] resend: Nautilus text previews in icons

2003-08-20 Thread John Keller
Steve Fox wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 12:51, John Keller wrote: I never seem to be able to get text previews in my icons in Nautilus (local files or remote mounts), not even when I set preferences to show them Always. Sometimes, I wonder if it isn't because Nautilus thinks my machine

Re: [Cooker] Re: Bootsplash submissions -- round 2

2003-08-20 Thread John Keller
Buchan Milne wrote: David Walser wrote: Wow, http://www.bfcomputerconsulting.com/images/mandrake_splash_progress_bar.jpg is sharp. Removes my only complaints about the first draft. I agree, this one rocks. Can we have it in 1600x1200 or vector (ie XCF or similar)? I will try and

Re: [Cooker] Interesting GNOME-vs-KDE UI comment

2003-08-20 Thread John Keller
Leon Brooks wrote: http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/13/1424212 Siemens found KDE to be more Windows-like than Gnome, but that lead to problems when non-technical users expected a more Windows-like experience. Gnome, particularly Ximian's version, was different

Re: [Cooker] Patch for gtk file selector

2003-08-19 Thread John Keller
Rob wrote: Wow, that looks A LOT less sucky than the normal gtk file dialog. My question would be how many apps that also tweak the Gtk file dialog will that end up breaking. That would be exactly my worry. The patch makes for a prettier dialog, but I don't know necessarily how much *better*

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